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NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has suspended Houston star James Harden one game without pay for kicking LeBron James in the groin. The All-Stars and Olympic teammates became tangled in the third quarter of Houston's 105-103 victory over Cleveland on Sunday and Harden fell back to the court, then kicked his foot up into James. Harden was given a flagrant foul 1 for the play, which the league upgraded Monday to a flagrant 2, which would have been an automatic ejection if called at the time. An angry James said after the game that Harden's kick was "not a basketball play" and that the league would probably look at it. Harden, the NBA's leading scorer and a top...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has suspended Houston star James Harden one game without pay for kicking LeBron James in the groin.
The All-Stars and Olympic teammates became tangled in the third quarter of Houston's 105-103 victory over Cleveland on Sunday...

Donnie Boyce, boys basketball coach at Proviso East High School who is also a security guard at the Maywood school, was fired by the Proviso Township board of education on Tuesday, two months after he was suspended with pay pending an investigation that...

Every once in a while you’ll see a famous face in the crowd at a Bulls game. There were two on hand last week that I know of. And if the Bulls can make a run at the NBA title as some are predicting, it’s safe to assume there will be a lot more. Here are...

TV/radio: 6:30 p.m. Monday; CSN, WMVP-AM 1000.
Storylines: The Bulls are 3-3 in the second of back-to-back games. The Hawks had won nine straight until Orlando beat them with a Tobias Harris buzzer beater and entered Sunday tied for the league lead...

ATLANTA — The box score from the Bulls' 93-86 loss to the Hawks on Monday night at Philips Arena showed that Derrick Rose missed 15 of 21 shots and committed six turnovers to almost offset his eight assists.
As far as coach Tom Thibodeau is concerned,...

The summary
Before his team's 11th win in 12 games, Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer joked that Derrick Rose has looked so good that the Bulls should rest him on Monday. Instead, Rose playing may have helped the Hawks. Rose finished 6-for-21 with eight...

The Bulls dropped to 15-9 after Monday’s 93-86 loss to the Hawks in Atlanta. Here are three observations.
1. Derrick Rose needs to shoot fewer 3-pointers.
It shouldn’t matter if defenders are going under screens on Rose. It shouldn’t matter if both...

The Detroit Pistons waived veteran forward Josh Smith on Monday.
Smith, 29, still had two years and at least $26 million remaining on his contract after this season.
The 6-foot-9, 225-pound Smith has averaged 13.1 points, 7.2 rebounds and 4.7 assists...

Veteran forward Josh Smith has agreed to sign a deal with the Houston Rockets, multiple media outlets reported Wednesday.Smith, 29, reportedly wanted to play for a winning team with a chance to win the NBA title.Smith was waived by the Detroit Pistons...

Twice this week, NBA players had their names misspelled on their jerseys.
In the Bulls' victory over the Detroit Pistons on Monday, big man Andre Drummond played the game with "Drummund" on his uniform. Wednesday night, Atlanta Hawks forward...

UPDATE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has published Bruce Levenson's email in its entirety online.
Atlanta Hawks controlling owner Bruce Levenson announced that he is selling his share of the team after he admitted to writing an e-mail two years ago...

The Chicago Bulls roster stands at 14 after they cut guard Kim English, guard Ben Hansbrough and center Solomon Jones from their preseason roster on Saturday.
Jones, 30, played 11 games with Orlando last season and scored 14 points. The 6-foot, 10-inch...

Again the sports world is rattled by men behaving badly, but this time with a twist: NFL player Ray Rice tried to stay when he should have gone, while NBA team owner Bruce Levenson left despite good reasons for him to stick around.
The only good thing to...

ATLANTA -- A newspaper says it has obtained audio of Atlanta Hawks general manager Danny Ferry making racially charged comments about NBA player Luol Deng.
The partial recording of a June 6 conference call was posted online Thursday evening by the...

Atlanta Hawks general manager Danny Ferry has taken a leave of absence following reports he made racial comments in a conference call with team owners. The comments were made in reference to veteran forward Luol Deng.Hawks CEO Steve Koonin released a...

Carmelo Anthony is underrated.
So says the New York Knicks’ seven-time All-Star forward and 2012-13 NBA scoring champion.
"I think I'm the most underrated superstar that's out there but that doesn't matter to me," Anthony told ESPN when...

Context no longer is an issue when it comes to the racially tinged comments offered by Atlanta Hawks General Manager in regards to Miami Heat forward Luol Deng.In the wake of leaks about how Danny Ferry evaluated Deng prior to the start of NBA free...

Atlanta Hawks controlling owner Bruce Levenson announced that he is selling his share of the team after he admitted to writing an e-mail two years ago that contained racially insensitive remarks about fans.
In July, the NBA launched an investigation...